A Peruvian soccer team sure picked a strange way to have a salvage their dignity and have a one-sided game abandoned during a Copa Peru playoff rout by having five players go down at once with faked injuries so the referee would call the game.
Defensor Bolivar were losing 4-1 in the first round of the semi-final match against Defensor La Bocana, and already had two men sent off, before they started dropping like flies on the pitch.
With seven minutes of the game remaining, five Bolivar players fell to the ground in a disgraceful ploy to cancel the match and take flopping to a shocking new level:
Defensor La Bocana chose to play on and scored a fifth goal as they continued play with the remaining four "fit" players.
FIFA rules state that a team must have at least seven players on the field to continue and therefore the referee was forced to abandon the game.
The second leg of the tie is due to be played on Thursday but there are doubts whether that game will go on until Peruvian football officials decide whether to punish Bolivar for their misconduct.
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